The breaking of the alabaster box and the anointing of the Lord filled the house with the odor, with the sweetest odor.
WATCHMAN NEEMany are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons.
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It is important to receive God’s arrangement in the circumstances. This arrangement is the discipline of the Holy Spirit. To escape God’s arrangement just one time is to lose an opportunity to have our capacity enlarged. A believer can never be the same after passing through suffering.
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By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
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Take this as the secret of Christ’s life in you: His Spirit dwells in your innermost spirit. Meditate on it, believe in it, and remember it until this glorious truth produces within you a holy fear and wonderment that the Holy Spirit indeed abides in you.
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He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord – including darkness, dryness, flatness – and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him.
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Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.
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To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so.
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Let us ask Him to deliver us from the many external and fragmentary affairs that we may touch only Him.
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How easily we make things as way, truth, and life. Or, we call hot atmosphere as life, we label clear thought as life.
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God has always one sufficient answer, His Son Jesus Christ, and he is the answer to every need.
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Repentance means a change of mind. Formerly, I thought sin as a pleasant thing, but now I have changed my mind about it. Formerly, I thought the world an attractive place, but now I know better.
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Not until we take the place of a servant can He take His place as Lord.
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Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.
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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears — THAT is Christianity!
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If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.
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To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual.
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